A Demilune Table Makeover + A Giveaway!

A Demilune Table Makeover plus a Giveaway!

Approximately fifteen years ago, I bought a pretty little demilune table at market. Although it wasn’t antique, I fell in love with it’s half mooned shape and carved details. It’s wall-hugging design, with no corners to bump into, made it the perfect size for small spaces.

Over the years, it’s become a bit worn with some of the faux painted finish coming off, so I decided to give it a much needed makeover using my favorite paint, Pure & Original Classico and Marrakech Paint. We’re also offering you a chance to win some of this paint in a fabulous giveaway, so be sure and read all the way to the bottom to see how to enter!

Our demilune table has always sat in the family room underneath our antique French church board. This 19th c. church board still retains much of its original gilding and rich blue paint, and those colors were my inspiration for the demilune makeover.

This is what the table looked like before I started painting.

Using my favorite paint, Pure & Original Classico, in colors of Steel Blue, Polar Blue, and Tin Kettle,
I layered the colors to give it depth and patina.

I started with a base layer of Steel Blue, then layered a thin wash of Polar Blue, and added Tin Kettle for highlights.

Marrakech is a new revolutionary, heavy bodied paint that creates the appearance of Venetian plaster walls, resembling stone or marble.

This was the first time that I’ve played with Marrakech paint, and I was a bit nervous about the application process. I’m not completely sure I applied it exactly the way it was instructed, however I love the end result!

Adding some “age related” patina to the base was easy using our homemade glaze.

Then I wet distressed the base in a few places to bring out the layers underneath.

Now, our little demilune is finished and back in its place under our old French church board. I love how the colors compliment each other, and the new paint has breathed new life into this table.

And now for our giveaway!

My friends at Pure & Original Paint and I would love for you to try this amazing paint! They have been gracious enough to offer our readers a chance to win their Creative Package which consists of two 250 ml cans of Classico paint (your choice of colors), a 250 ml can of the amazing Italian liquid wax, and a Pure & Original round paint brush!

I can’t wait for you to try this paint! I hope you love it as much as I do!

It’s really simple to enter (I hate complicated giveaways, don’t you?!?). All you have to do is visit Pure & Original’s website, select which two Classico colors you love, come back here and leave me acomment letting me know which ones you’ve chosen!

And if you have a particular project in mind to use this paint on, I would love to hear about that too!

The giveaway will run through the weekend and will end at midnight on 07/29/18. A winner will be chosen by random drawing and notified by email on 07/30/18.

Good Luck! I can’t wait to see what you create with this amazing paint!

(Update: This giveaway is now closed and a winner has been announced)

(Pure & Original supplied the paint for this project. All opinions are 100% my own. See our full disclosure policy HERE.)

Was wondering if you tell me where you stay when you go to the estate sale in Mobile. A small group of girl friends will be going done in November. Going down on Thursday evening. You have us excited about what we may find do you know if the big Christmas store is still open. Was there years ago. Amazing. Thanks in advance. Also getting that steel blue paint. Love it. Love your blog. Lyn

Hi Lyn! We usually stay at the LaQuinta in Tillman’s Corner because we always travel with our little schnauzer. However there are hotels downtown that are much closer to the estate sale location. I believe there is a Holiday Inn, Hampton Inn & Suites, and the Battle House Hotel. They are downtown in the Historic District and would be much more convenient than where we stay. Yes, I believe the Christmas shop is still there! If your are making the trip, you MUST also visit Charles Phillips Antiques & Architecturals!! It’s a must! Email me if you have any other questions! Cindy@edithandevelynvintage.com you will have so much fun! A great girls trip!! Let me know if I can help with any suggestions!

The table is to die for! I want the exact same colors you used but you never gave the blue you used. I would guess my 2 colors would be (1) Lagoon Water Classico and (2) Apple Blossom. I already have the table in mind I want to do this on!
Love your blog – you are such an artist but give me the courage to try to brave like you and “go for it”.
Sandy

Your table is gorgeous and I appreciate the instructions. Would love to use this on a french provincial cabinet that needs some love. My colour choices are Pure & Original Marrakech Wall Paint in color Apple Blossom (I want to try the table top treatment you did on the table) and White Rhino. Fingers crossed!

Like everything on your site, this is sheer perfection. I am trying to adapt a new house to my tastes, and I’ve gleaned so many good ideas from your site. Thank you for being so generous with your talents!

As far as paint goes, having to choose a favorite color is like having to choose a favorite child! I love them all, but would like to try Old Flax and Oyster White. Then I will order a color card and probably want to order them all!

I am going to try to make a wall of mirrors in my entry, and will probably use the paint for them,as well as good old Rub n’ Buff. I’m still collecting mirrors, but also want to try to make one, as you suggested with your trumeau mirror tutorial. Such great ideas you share!

Hi Cindy,
My mom, sister, and I all follow your blog. We are always asking each other if they have seen the latest “edithandevelyn post”. We love every single DIY project that you post. We have my Dad buying saws and tools to help us out in hopes to create a few beautiful pieces. It is great because we spend more time together! <3 Your work is beautiful. We would love some tutorial videos!! It was a close tie between Blue Reef Classico and Lagoon Water but Ill go with Lagoon Water and Evening Shadow!!! Can't wait to try this paint!

I’m a new reader of your blog but I have become obsessed with it! I would love to try Lagoon water and Evening shadow on an old table that I can’t get out of my mind. Please share a video on your trumeau mirror and your painting techniques!

I would pick the colors Oxford Blue Classico and Havanna Yellow Classico , I am redoing a bedroom in blue and yellow and would love to use this paint as a chance to cover a hope chest I have had since the 1970s !!

Steel Blue and Tin Kettle for me! I’ve been hunting for a deep navy to paint my fireplace cabinets for awhile now. Your demiline is perfect for the inspiration I needed to move forward. Just gorgeous! Thank you!!

Your table is absolutely beautiful. I would give anything to have your painting talent. Wow it was so hard to choose which colors I would like. I guess I would chose Lagoon Water and Island White for a French console table I am refinishing. I love your home and your beautiful décor. I have enjoyed reading your blog for 4 years now and always look forward to each new article.

I have a friend that introduced me to your blog and your online accounts. We visited Round Top Texas for antiques week a year and a half ago to find the best finds to upcycle and redo her home; her dying father built, for her up and upcoming daughter’s wedding. Fast forward 1 year and 2 months ago and she has so many things we took from your decorating cues and incorporated into her design redo. We are looking for a new chalk paint line and want to try Classico chalk paint in Pure and Original. We trust that if black and white colors are great the other colors are divine.
Please enter up to win Apple blossom and Black.
Thank you so much.
Happiest Painting!

Impossible to choose just two! Maybe I would use Old Linen and Sea Salt to redo my dining room table – If I ever get up the nerve to do so! You are my inspiration ever since I saw your home and work in Romantic Homes magazine in April 2016! Thank you for sharing your many talents with us. Whenever you post to your blog, it’s the first thing I open that day.

I love the layered look of paint, my living room looks like old plaster in the brown and cream family. I f I have to choose the sample set would be fun to play with. Lava white and soft taupe are in my wheel house too. I have no project in mind but that could change tomorrow! Please enter me into the drawing.
Thanks, Denise

I have a vintage french desk that has hand painted flowers that I’m trying to work up the courage to paint. I love the flowers but the rest of it is white that has yellowed. My choice of colors, which was not an easy choice by the way, would be Old Flax and Apple Blossom. I REALLY wish you would do a VIDEO on your painting technique. When I’ve tried layering colors like yours, I just get a different color than the last color.

So exciting, my family says I paint everything. I guess I do, I love chalk paint and the French look you can achieve with it. There are to many beautiful colors to pick just two, but a few really spoke to me. Blue reef, Atria, Wet sand, Magestic cloth, and the Steele Blue you used is gorgeous

Oxford Blue classico and Apple Blossom classico were the two colors l finally decided on but there were so many gorgeous blues and whites, so it was hard to narrow my choices down to just two! I’ve only worked at painting houses, and not furniture, so this would be a fun challenge for me!

I have a small accent table that badly needs a makeover and the Pure Original paints would be perfect. Blue Reef and Bone would look great on it and I love your idea of a light accent using Rub & Buff. You’re Demilune table turned out beautifully. Thanks.

Hi Cindy! I usually don’t comment on here but I truly love your style! The gorgeous pieces you have in your Home are just so stylish!! That demilune is beautiful!! I love to paint! I have always wanted to paint my China cabinet! I love the Ashes Classico and Atria Classico!! It would be hard to choose! Thanks for the giveaway!

Your talent has been such an inspiration to me! My favorite color is purple and so I lean toward any shade or hint of it.
Post Modern Mauve and Summerset Mauve would work perfectly on a slim cabinet I have been wanting to paint.

Cindy, you’ve created some really stunning pieces just by transforming them with paints and a little elbow grease! Still love your buffet and had to go look at those paint colors again. Okay, I did go check out Pure and Original’s website and I think I’d like Barbados Blue and Chalk White. I think that’s the latter paint’s name! I have a little nightstand I found at Hobby Lobby last year I’d like to redo. A beautiful Italianesque finish would be perfect!

Patti, I usually wax as the very last step over the top of the rub n buff. And contrary to it’s name, I just use my finger and put the rub n buff on the accents that I want gilded….I usually don’t even buff it. I just wax over the top, then buff the wax when dry.

I would choose Sea Moss and White Orchid. I found a side-of-the-road vintage side table in fair condition that I would like to paint. The top would be painted in a soft harlequin-style pattern. My creative juices are flowing…. Thank you for your inspirational post and designs!

I think I would go for the Old Red and White Rhino ~ I have an old dollhouse I want to repurpose and those colors would look great. Thanks for some fantastic decorating ideas on some globes that were gifted to me from my mother in law from a church, I still have no clue what they were used for, but I am glad I hung on to them after seeing all your beautiful pieces. Have a great weekend!

Hi Cindy, I love the results of your beautiful demilune project! I’ve chosen, as difficult as it was!, Aubergine Classico and Antique White Classico to refinish my sewing table, which is actually an old desk, but it works perfect for my sewing projects. It’s beat up, and could use a refresher and these colors would look great in my craft/sewing room! Thank you for having this contest & all the information you shared on how to use these awesome paints!

Please tell me how in the world I’m supposed to pick only TWO favorites!! There is such a huge variety of shades to choose from; each one prettier than the last!! After much debate, I finally settled on Post Modern Mauve and Old Rose simply because I’m wanting to break away from my usual palette of taupe, grey, cream and greige! I have a vintage French-y desk/vanity that I’ve been dying to do a makeover on using feminine colors with gold accents. Either of the beautiful shades I’ve chosen would work perfectly on this project!! Thank you for sharing your technique Cindy! I learn something new every time!!

Cindy I have been dying to try this paint! Landscape Classico and milk white Classico are my safe colors! I really need a tutorial by you because your pieces are amazing!
Also love moonstone,country beige,pigeon grey,silver lake,smoked steel Classico.
If I can choose one Classico and one Marrakech? I would love to try apple blossom!
Your table top is awesome!

So after agonizing over selecting just 2 colors from the gorgeous palette, I have selected Polar Blue Classico and Bone Classico. We just moved into a modern farmhouse about 6 months ago and I’m re-painting several furniture pieces to go with my new soft gray and white interior. I would LOVE to have these colors for so many items but I would really love to paint these tall Gothic arched-top bookcase. I’ve had it for a long time and between house moves and normal wear and tear, its seen better days, I would love to refresh it with this paint and get many more years of enjoyment out of it – <3

Amazing! I absolutely love your painting techniques and your ability to choose the best colors to use together on a project! My favorite color is blue and have been wanting to do a furniture project in blue. I have an old chest and I would choose Steel Blue and Belgian Biscuit as my colors for it. Thanks so much for such great posts.

Beautiful job! it’s gorgeous. I would love to try the Soft Greek blue and Chalk White. I am about to paint a large antique desk for a friend and I think this combination would be amazing. Thanks for hosting the giveaway 🙂

What a wonderful, and inspiring, wall of goodness! The French church board is beyond yummy! Love how you painted the legs “Steel Blue” to give it a strong presence.

As for choosing just 2 favorite colors, that was tough! Love so many, and the names are so creative, and so fit the colors!

So, I picked, “Blue Reef” and “Ristretto” because they speak foggy mornings to me. I just got a table-top curio cabinet that I will store my grandmother’s cut-glass vases in, as she brought them from Ireland to the US in the early 1900s. Fragile, as you can imagine.

Your table turned out gorgeous. Do you have a tutorial showing the step by step process? I love, love how you layered it! This is the first time I’ve heart of this paint and the colors are gorgeous! Makes it so hard to chose from but I think I’d pick the Milk White and Atria. I have an old vanity and several more furniture pieces that I’d like to do, just need the paint. Thanks so much for the giveaway. I’m pinning your beautiful table!

The demilune table is lovely! Pure & Classico offer so many beautiful colors to choose from. I would love to try Poetic Blue and Belgian Biscuit on a pair of French chairs that need refinishing. I look forward to reading your blog Cindy, and seeing your beautiful home transformations.

First time ever I leave a comment or participate in a giveaway. I love what you did with your table. I would redo my dining room table. My colors would be African Hut and Oyster White. Each time I love reading your email

I love this paint company! Lucious colors and hard to choose, but Island white and Lagoon water classico are my two choices. I have an old bassinet to fix up for my daughter in law. Cheers, Elizabeth O’Day

OMG I love the colors you used…Steel Blue and Polar Blue. Can you give a mini instructions on how you achieved the aged look? I know y9ou applied the Steel Blue. Then washed with Polar blue. Did you use a cloth to remove some of the paint? I am in love with that look! Thanks so much for the inspiration!

Jana, I use a little bit of everything to give it the worn look, but lately what I’ve been using is simply a spray bottle with water. I apply the paint and then spray a gentle mist, letting it naturally thin the paint, revealing the layers underneath. I’ve also added a thin wash, then wipe some of it back with a soft cloth, but I have to say, using the spray bottle with water has been my favorite lately. And it’s so easy!

Wow! Your demilune table is beautiful! I need to get back to painting a few pieces, so your post is very timely. I would love some Greek Sky and Lagoon to add to my gold accented pieces. What a great new product and offer. Thanks for sharing this Cindy.

The colors are gorgeous on their site. It was very difficult to choose my favorite. We still have my husbands highboy dresser he used as a child and then our children used. Now it’s in my studio waiting for me to decide what to transform it into. I think my choice would be Soft Asparagus and Moonstone…….but I loved Frozen water and nautique too. Oh the struggle. 🙂 Thank you for the chance.
Cindy

Oh my goodness – it was so hard to choose just two colors – they were all so beautiful. I choose Lagoon Water and Polar Blue. I have two bedside tables in desperate need of makeovers, and that is what I’d use the paint on. Thank you for having this drawing.

Your table turned out fabulous!!!
It’s so hard to pick just too colors. There are so many really wonderful ones to choose from. I’m into blues these days, so I’m loving Greeksky, but I also love the deep moody Abergine. My daughter has a project sideboard I would probably work on, or perhaps my demilune console. There’s always a thing or twelve that could be done.
Have a lovely weekend, and give John a hug.

I really enjoy seeing all the beautiful transformations in your home…. so inspiring.
I would choose Greek Sky and Wet Sand to paint a bench for the kitchen. I choose these colors to mimic old salt crocks colors (I have a huge collection).
Thank you for all the wonderful ideas.

Hi,
Fabulous demie-lune table. I do love distressed furniture.
Dry clay and deep earth would be the colours I’d chose. I have two old french armoires to distress.
I think you should be able to get my email from this comment, but if not , you can find me at
myhusbanddrivesalemon.com
Great post, thank you
Miranda

Oh my goodness! These Pure & Original colors are so delicious. I do have a small side table that is calling me for an update.The Soft Asparagus and Wet Sand colors would blend this table with granite stone top into the great room colors.

Wow! I LOVE how the table turned out. I was about to pick your two blue colors, but then I fell in love with Libo Bay and Ristretto. I have a small fretwork table I rescued and I’d love to try these colors. Thanks for the chance!